Google celebrates Atari Breakout anniversary with an 'Easter egg'

To commemorate the 37th anniversary of "Atari Breakout," Google has throw in a fun "Easter egg" onto its image search results. (Google)

Google likes to sneak in hidden gems onto its websites every now and then, and this week it added a new one: a mini-game of Atari Breakout to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the arcade video game.

When users head to Google image search and type in "Atari Breakout," the result is quite different from other image searches. Instead of displaying multiple rows of images, the Google website rearranges itself to recreate the classic 1976 video game.

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In case you don't recall, "Atari Breakout" is similar to pong and lets users control a sliding paddle to keep a ball from going past it. However, instead of facing off against another user, in "Breakout" users are trying to destroy multiple rows of bricks in order to get the highest score possible. If the ball gets past the paddle, users lose one life -- and they only have five lives.